The Wisconsin Contracts Group and the Wisconsin Law School announce a contracts conference to be held at Wisconsin Law School on October 21-22, 2011. The title of the conference is: Empirical and Lyrical: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay. A website with details about the conference, including a brief description of paper topics, has been established. Sixteen papers will be presented at the conference, by the following scholars: David Campbell, Robert W. Gordon, Ethan Leib, Brian Bix, Jay Feinman, Gillian Hadfield, Claire Hill, Charles Knapp, Deborah Post, Edward Rubin, Carol Sanger, Robert Scott, D. Gordon Smith, Josh Whitford and Li-Wen Lin, John Wightman and William Woodward. The conference will conclude with a banquet on Saturday, October 22, at which Stewart Macaulay will give a talk.

All faculty and academic staff at any university are welcome to attend. There is no conference fee. Pre-registration is required for the conference and for the conference banquet. For more information, see the website linked above. Questions about registration, etc., should be directed to Pam Hollenhorst, Conference Coordinator, at pshollen@wisc.edu. Other questions about the conference should be directed to Bill Whitford, at whitford@mailplus.wisc.edu.